You need DD Form 2566, and this page gives you the blank plus the steps for handling it. Start with what the form does: DoD Assistance Award Action Report. Its official title is DD Form 2566, DoD Assistance Award Action Report, September 1998.
Next, check the edition. You want not stated, currently carried as not stated by the publisher. Then confirm the form applies to you — this is a Department of Defense form, so you use it whether you serve in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Space Force or Coast Guard under Defense jurisdiction.
Once you know the form fits, find out when you file it. not stated sets the requirement, and not stated maintains the form itself. Your own command or agency adds local timing on top of that, so ask your administrative office if the deadline matters to you.
Before you download, pick your approach — editable file or printed page. What follows covers the formats first, then the entries, then what you do afterward.
Start at the header. Complete your identification before anything else, then work through the main entries, then finish at the certification. Skipping around causes contradictions between the top of the form and the bottom.
Your first action is verification. Find the edition date on the form and match it against not stated. A mismatch means you are working from a superseded printing, and because DD forms change Department-wide rather than service by service, the office receiving it will notice.
Look up an unclear item on the form face before anywhere else, then in not stated. Should the two texts conflict, the directive is the one you follow.
Download the form
Begin by choosing a file. Available here: PDF. Plan for 1 pages and about 50 entries.
All of it downloads free. When you are ready to work, do this: save the file locally, then open it in a full pdf application. Browsers often ignore field properties, and you can lose everything you typed.
What the form asks for
- A 2. Report number.
- A 3. Contracting office code.
- B 2. Cage code.
- B 3. F. I. C. E. code.
- B 4. TIN.
- B. 5. Parent TIN.
- B. 6. Recipient name and division name.
- B. 7. Recipient address (street, city, state).
- B. 10. Zip code.
- Part C. 1. Award number.
- C. 2. Mod number.
- C. 12. Project description.
- C. 13. Primary administering agency.
- C. 18. a. Research and development amount.
- C. 18. b. Fellowships, traineeships amount.
- C. 18. c. R. and D. plant amount.
- C. 18. d. Facilities and equipment for science and engineering (D. O. D. instrumentation) amount.
- C. 18. e. General support for science and engineering amount.
- C. 18. f. Other activities related to science and engineering (conference or symposia) amount.
- C. 19. Category of science and engineering. C.19. a. Category.
- C. 19. b. Category.
- C. 19. c. Category.
- D. 2. Signature.
- Press this reset button to clear the data from all fields
Now that it is complete, send it where not stated or your local procedure says it goes. Before you do, make yourself a copy — scan it or save the file elsewhere. It costs you nothing and saves you the whole exercise if the original goes missing.
If the form points you to another document, you can find it by number alone. DD numbering runs across the whole Department, so you do not need to work out which service issued it — one number, one form, everywhere.
Be careful when a procedure pairs this form with a service form. Read the prefix, not just the digits. Service forms answer to a service proponent, while DD forms answer to not stated or an equivalent Department office, and the two sequences were never aligned. Grabbing the wrong prefix gets you a form that has nothing to do with your task.
Do not archive this file and reuse it in a year. Forms are reissued as directives are revised, as data requirements shift, and as statutory notice text is amended. Your protection is simple: download fresh each time and confirm the edition date.
One thing this page does not do: tell you whether your submission will be accepted. We publish the document and explain how to complete it, and that is where our role ends. Nothing here is legal advice. Take questions about eligibility, applicability or procedure to not stated, to your servicing personnel office, or to the office named in not stated.
Questions and answers
- What is DD Form 2566?
- DD Form 2566, DoD Assistance Award Action Report, September 1998
- Which edition is current?
- Not stated by the publisher
- Who is responsible for this form?
- Not stated
- In which formats can it be downloaded?